By default, a TDW controller will automatically launch a build when it runs. However, the build won't work if auto-launched on a Linux server. This is because it's too difficult to automatically predict the display settings of a server.
This will work if the build is running on a personal computer:
from tdw.controller import Controller
c = Controller()
c.communicate({"$type": "terminate"})On a Linux server, you must set the launch_build parameter of the Controller constructor to False:
from tdw.controller import Controller
c = Controller(launch_build=False)
c.communicate({"$type": "terminate"})Then, download, extract, and run the latest version of the build.
All of the code snippets in the TDW documentation are set up to automatically launch the build. If you want to try running them on a Linux server, just remember to add launch_build=False to the controller constructor.
You can set launch_build=False on a personal computer as well (in which case you'll need to download the build manually).
If you are using OS X, you'll need to run the shellscript located in the same directory as TDW.app before running TDW for the first time. This is handled automatically if launch_build=True.
If you've already launched the build automatically via Controller(), the location of the build is always ~/tdw_build where ~ is your home directory.
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